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SECOND  ANNUAL   BANQUET 


OF  THE 


Society  of  Comparative  Medicine 


OF  THE 

New  York  State  Veterinary  College 

HELD  ON  THE 

Tenth  anniversary  of  the  founding 
of  the  College 


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Wednesday  Evening,  February  fifteenth 

1905 


Anamnesis 


"  /  would  found  an  institution  where  any  person  can 
find  instruction  in  any  study  " — Ezra  Cornell. 

1865.  Cornell  University  established  by  act  of  legislature. 

1 868-1 896.   Dr.    Law,  Professor  of  Veterinary  Science  in  Cornell 
University. 

1894.   "There  is   hereby    established    a   State    Veterinary   College 
at  Cornell  University." — Laws  of  New   York,  1894. 

1896,  Sept.   24th.    Inauguration  of    New    York    State    Veterinary 
College,  with  Dr.  Law  as  Director. 

Number  of  students  enrolled,  eleven. 

1897.  Degrees  conferred  upon  three  men. 

1904.  Degrees  conferred  upon  sixteen  men. 

Total  number  of  degrees  conferred,  from  June,  1897,  to  1904, 
inclusive,  68. 

1904-5.     Number  of  students  enrolled,  108. 


Committee 


Frederick  Henry  McNair,  '05,  Chairman 
Frederic  Willment  Andrews,  '05 
Arthur  James  Burley,  '05 
John  Gordon  Wills,  '06 
walter  nelligan,  '06 
Walter  E.  Frink,  '07 
Owen  Emmett  Williams,  '07 


cheer  leader 
Cassius  Way,  '05 


Toasts 


Toastmaster  -  -  Dr.  P.  A.  Fish 


Alma  Mater 
Welcome  -  -  -  -  F.  B.  Smith,  '05 

President  of  the  Society  of  Comparative  Medicine 
The  University  -  -  PRESIDENT  J.  G.  Schurman 

Dr.  Law  in  his  relation  to  Cornell  University,  New  York  State, 

and  the  United  States       -        -      Hon.  Andrew  D.  White 

Alumni  Song 

Dr.  Law  as  a  Scientific  and  Professional  Man    -     Dr.  V.  A.  MOORE 

Dean  Law  through  the  eyes  of  Dean  White  -  Dr.  David  S.  White 

Presentation  of  Loving  Cup         -  -  Dr.  D.  H.  Udau,,  '01 

Response  -  -  -    >  -  Dr.  James  Law 

Evening  Song 


It  is  much  to  be  regretted  that  the 
addresses  of  President  Schurman,  Ex- 
President  White,  and  Dr.  Law  could 
not  be  included  in  this  collection. 
No  manuscripts  were  prepared  and,  as 
no  stenographer  was  present,  the  ad- 
dresses must  necessarily  be  omitted. 


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DR.  LAW  AS  A  SCIENTIFIC  AND  PROFESSIONAL 

MAN 

VERANUS  A.  MOORE 

Professor  of  Comparative  Pathology  and  Bacteriology, 
New  York  State  Veterinary  College,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Toastmaster,  Honored  Guests  and  Fellow  Students  : 

I  accepted  the  invitation  of  your  Committee  with  a 
feeling  of  mingled  hesitancy  and  pleasure.  Hesitancy  be- 
cause of  a  consciousness  that  there  would  be  others  present 
who  could  respond  more  graciously,  and  the  pleasure  came 
with  the  joy  that  naturally  goes  with  the  opportunity  of 
doing,  or  trying  to  do,  that  which  all  consider  a  privilege 
and  an  honor  to  do.  For,  Mr.  Toastmaster,  there  are  many 
scientific  and  professional  men  scattered  throughout  this 
commonwealth,  the  states  of  the  Union,  and  the  nations  of 
the  world  who  would  be  glad  to  be  here,  to  reply  to  this 
toast,  and  to  pay  a  personal  tribute  to  the  high  character  of 
the  scientific  and  professional  attainments  of  our  honored 
Director. 

Every  institution  has  its  traditions  and  legends.  When 
I  came  to  the  University  as  a  freshman  in  1883,  the  first 
legend  I  heard,  was,  that  in  the  beginning,  Ezra  Cornell 
had  sent  President  White  to  Europe  to  get  a  ' '  Horse 
Doctor".  When  I  expressed  surprise,  as  I  did,  my  in- 
formant said,  "what  Ezra  Cornell  wanted  and  Andrew  D. 
White  did  was  all  right  ".     It  is  all  right. 

President  White  procured  the  man,  not  the  proverbial 
' '  Horse  Doctor  ' '  but  an  educated,  cultured  Veterinarian, 
with  high  professional  ideals,  who  was  made  Professor  of 
Veterinary  Science  in  a  great,  but  a  new  University.  This, 
so  far  as  I  have  learned,  was  the  first  time  Veterinary 
Science  had  been  admitted  into  the  curriculum  of  an 
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— 6— 

American  University  with  equal  rank,  hour  for  hour,  with 
languages,  mathematics,  history,  and  philosophy.  More 
than  that,  this  was  the  beginning  of  a  new  epoch  in  Veter- 
inary education  in  America  ;  the  guiding  light  to  many 
important  discoveries  in  human  pathology,  and  the  founda- 
tion for  a  series  of  inquiries  that  have  resulted  in  doing 
more  than  we  can  measure  for  humanity  and  in  making 
possible  the  development  of  tropical  and  sub- tropical 
countries. 

When  I  was  a  freshman,  we  had  many  credulous  men, 
men  who  came  here  to  learn  and  who  were  willing  to  be- 
lieve everything  they  were  told  by  everybody,  even  sopho- 
mores. One  of  these  men  was  taking  the  course  in 
mechanical  engineering.  Presently  he  was  observed  to  be 
studying  a  strange  book  on  his  way  to  and  from  Sibley. 
We  investigated  the  matter  and  found  that  our  classmate 
had,  according  to  instructions,  bought  a  copy  of  Dr.  I^aw's 
Farmers'  Veterinary  Adviser  which  he  was  memorizing  page 
by  page  in  order  to  be  able  to  compute  the  horse-power  of 
a  locomotive.  We  took  the  incident  as  a  healthy  ' '  jolly, ' '  but 
the  industrial  history  of  the  last  twenty  years  shows 
that  the  direct  and  indirect  results  of  the  efforts  of  the 
author  of  that  book  has  extended  to  and  touched  very  per- 
ceptibly the  activity  not  only  of  locomotives  but  of  other 
implements  incident  to  human  activity. 

A  professional  man,  whose  lot  is  cast  in  a  University 
family,  must  of  necessity  be  exercised  by  the  responsibility 
of  his  teaching,  his  investigations,  and  the  channels  through 
which  his  efforts  and  results  may  extend  into  the  outer 
world  to  benefit  humanity.  In  this  he  must  display  his 
ability  and  demonstrate  his  right  to  a  place  of  honor  in 
scientific  and  professional  circles.  It  was  in  such  an 
environment  that  our  Director  has  operated.  His  enthu- 
siasm stimulated  his  students  not  only  to  learn  the  facts 
presented,  but  to  desire  to  inquire  into  their  genuineness. 


His  clear  vision  into  the  future  as  indicated  by  present 
knowledge  inspired  many  of  his  pupils  with  a  desire  to 
loosen  as  many  new  truths  as  possible  from  the  great  un- 
known, to  investigate,  to  do  research.  In  this  respect  he 
has  been  most  successful  for  in  this  channel  he  has  found 
not  only  the  lever  but  also  the  fulcrum  for  which  the  ancient 
philosopher  sought  in  order  that  he  might  move  the  world. 

I  well  remember  the  narrow,  long,  lecture  room  in  the  old 
chemical  building  where  we  listened  every  morning  at  eight 
o'clock  to  the  inspiring  lectures  on  comparative  anatomy, 
infectious  diseases,  or  parasitology.  I  well  remember  the 
clinics  in  those  days.  There  was  no  hospital,  the  operating 
room  had  neither  roof  nor  stocks,  and  the  ' '  table ' '  was 
mother  earth.  Nevertheless,  the  fame  of  our  Director  as  a 
practitioner  was  wide  spread  and  in  the  paddock  back  by 
the  University  barn  there  were  gathered  animals  from  far 
and  near  for  treatment.  However  primitive  the  equipment, 
we  were  taught  the  latest  results  of  scientific  medicine  and 
surgery.  While  the  great  Iyister  was  developing  antiseptic 
surgery  in  the  old  world  our  Veterinary  Professor  was 
applying  it  to  animals  in  the  new.  The  solicitude  of  the 
Doctor  for  better  educated  Veterinarians  as  he  would  occa- 
sionally refer  to  the  needs  of  the  profession,  the  necessity 
for  a  college  with  its  greater  opportunities,  and  the  confi- 
dence with  which  he  was  laboring  to  the  end  that  it  would 
come,  reminds  one  of  the  humble  parents  of  Pasteur  who  in 
their  devotion  to  their  little  Iyouis  were  accustomed  to  say 
"  we  will  make  an  educated  man  of  him." 

In  those  days  of  small  beginnings  many  men  were  in- 
spired to  research  work  who  received  their  veterinary  de- 
gree elsewhere,  or  who  went  out  to  do  great  service  in 
biology  or  human  medicine.  Among  the  students  of  those 
days  were  four  who  specialized  with  Dr.  I^aw  and  who 
received  from  the  University  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Veterinary  Science.     One  of  these,  for  reasons  I  do  not 


— 8— 

know,  changed  his  profession  to  the  law.  The  other  three 
soon  attained  international  reputations. 

One  of  these,  Dr.  D.  B.  Salmon,  entered  the  government 
service  and  began  the  investigation  of  the  infectious 
diseases  of  animals.  Soon  he  was  instrumental  in  organiz- 
ing the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry  over  which  he  presides. 
Nowhere  in  the  history  of  the  world  has  there  been  a 
stronger  or  more  efficient  organization  of  its  kind.  All 
through  the  years  of  its  development  Dr.  L,aw  was  a  valued 
advisor. 

The  second  of  these,  Dr.  A.  M.  Farrington,  has  risen  to 
be  the  director  of  the  Federal  Meat  Inspection  Service. 
This  has  not  only  a  great  sanitary  significance,  but  it  is  of 
much  value  to  our  nation  commercially.  It  is  recognized 
as  being  the  most  valuable  meat  inspection  service  in  exist- 
ence. Surely  the  reasons  for  such  an  inspection  as  taught 
long  years'^  ago  by  our  Director  have  found  expression  in 
this  service,  which  is  the  passport  for  our  beef  and  pork 
and  cattle  to  the  markets  of  the  world. 

The  third  of  these  three  earlv  graduates,  Dr.  F.  L.  Kil- 
borne,  was  jointly  associated  with  Dr.  Theobald  Smith  in 
the  investigation  of  Texas  cattle  fever.  They  not  only 
found,  as  our  Director  had  predicted,  that  there  was  a 
specific  cause  for  this  malady,  but  they  demonstrated  that 
it  was  transmitted  from  animal  to  animal  by  means  of  the 
cattle  tick.  This  enabled  the  formulation  of  regulations 
that  have  saved  annually  tens  of  thousands  of  dollars  to  the 
cattle  industry  of  the  States.  In  addition  to  its  great  eco- 
nomic value  it  was  a  brilliant  biological  discovery  which 
proved  to  be  of  still  greater  sanitary  significance  and  com- 
mercial importance. 

The  German  Commission  was,  soon  after  this  discovery, 
appointed  to  investigate  the  means  of  transmission  of 
malaria  in  man.  They  found,  as  you  know,  that  it  was 
the  mosquito.     In  his  report,  Robert  Koch  had  the  honor 


— 9— 

and  graciousness  to  admit  that  the  discovery  of  the  tick 
transmission  of  Texas  fever  made  his  discovery  possible. 

Then  came  the  Cuban  war.  A  great  man  in  Washington 
saw  that  our  boys  were  going  to  Cuba  not  to  be  shot  in 
battle  so  much  as  to  die  from  the  "  yellow  plague."  He 
procured  a  commission  to  investigate  the  infectious  diseases 
of  the  island,  and  that  greatest  of  all  commissions — because 
of  the  intelligent  directness  of  purpose  and  determination 
of  its  members  —  yet  appointed  to  investigate  human 
diseases,  headed  by  Major  Walter  Reed  demonstrated  that 
the  cause  of  yellow  fever  was  transmitted  by  a  species  of 
mosquito.  This  being  done,  yellow  fever  was  swept  from 
the  ' '  Pearl  of  the  Antilles, ' '  and  that  wonderful  island  is 
now  waiting  without  a  terror  for  development.  In  a  private 
conversation  with  Dr.  Reed  he  told  me  that  the  analogy 
between  Texas  fever  in  cattle  and  yellow  fever  of  man  was 
so  close  that  the  discovery  of  the  tick  theory  convinced  him 
that  the  other  was  true.  Is  this  not  a  sequence  of  events 
that  fixes  forever  the  fame  of  him  who  contributed  to  them  ? 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  mention  that  in  the  development 
of  certain  parts  of  Cuba  the  control  of  the  infectious  dis- 
eases of  animals  is  imperative.  Already  a  recent  graduate 
and  student  of  our  Director  is  Veterinarian  to  the  Superior 
Board  of  Health  of  Cuba  for  the  purpose  of  combating  and 
investigating  the  diseases  of  the  animals  of  the  island.  An- 
other of  our  graduates  is  now  on  his  way  there  to  take  a 
place  in  the  Cuban  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  and  Mr. 
Toastmaster,  if  the  young  republic  has  any  more  good 
places  we  have  got  the  men  to  fill  them. 

During  the  last  thirty  years  Dr.  I^aw  has  been  appealed 
to  on  many  occasions,  by  both  state  and  national  govern- 
ments, at  times  when  great  interests  were  at  stake.  With 
a  live  stock  valuation  of  over  two  billions  of  dollars,  there 
are  many  times  when  skilled  and  wise  men's  services  are 
required.     In  the  seventies  he  was  on  an  important  com- 


— 10 

mission  to  investigate  the  infectious  swine  diseases  that 
were  costing  the  country  more  than  a  million  dollars  a  year 
besides  the  suffering  from  cold  and  hunger  that  came  to  the 
losers.  In  his  report  he  penned  that  classical  description 
of  the  lesions  in  enteric  fever  of  swine  that  revealed  his 
ability  as  a  scientific  observer.  Again,  when  contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia  in  cattle  by  accident  got  into  this 
country,  Dr.  Law  rendered  a  professional  service  to 
the  nation  that  we  should  never  tire  of  telling.  This 
disease,  which  had  cost  Great  Britain  and  her  colonies 
many  millions  of  dollars,  was  threatening  the  destruction 
of  our  cattle  and  beef  industry.  Again  our  Director  came 
to  the  rescue,  and  in  this  country  contagious  pleuro- 
pneumonia is  a  thing  of  the  past.  In  1902,  when  foot  and 
mouth  disease  appeared  in  New  England,  Dr.  I^aw  was  one 
of  the  first,  if  not  the  first,  expert  to  be  sent  by  our  gov- 
ernment to  the  scene  of  destruction.  These  are  but  a  few 
of  the  valuable  professional  services  he  has  rendered,  but 
they  typify  the  work  he  has  done. 

Still  more,  he  has  extended  his  influence  to  the  veterinary 
profession  and  to  help  humanity  generally  by  his  publica- 
tions, consisting  of  many  valuable  papers  and  addresses  on 
professional  topics,  and  by  his  books.  His  Farmer's  Veter- 
inary Adviser  is  found  in  thousands  of  homes  in  the  coun- 
try, where  it  has  done  wonderful  service  for  good.  Again, 
as  our  menu  card  suggests,  he  is  the  author  of  a  system  of 
Medicine,  the  most  comprehensive  system  of  Veterinary 
Medicine  now  in  print. 

In  all  his  active  life,  in  the  many  spirited  professional 
struggles  for  the  upbuilding  of  his  profession  and  for  loftier 
ideals  to  work  to,  the  hero  of  the  evening  has  always  been 
in  line,  always  standing  for  the  truth  as  he  saw  it,  always 
strong  in  the  courage  of  his  convictions.  To  say  that  he 
has  always  been  immediately  victorious  in  these  struggles 
is,  of  course,  to  say  too  much.      However,  progress  in  the 


— II — 

world  is  made  by  retreats  as  well  as  advances  so  that  in  the 
end  he  has  won. 

I  have  touched,  and  but  lightly,  Mr.  Toastmaster,  but  a 
few  of  the  events  that  characterize  the  real  worth  of  the 
professional  services  of  our  beloved  Director.  The  fact  that 
when  there  is  a  professional  issue  the  inquiry  from  all 
directions  that  we  hear  is  ' ■  what  doesDr.  L,aw  think  of  it ?' ' 
is  an  index  of  the  esteem  in  which  he  is  held  by  others. 
As  time  has  gone  by,  he  has  detected  the  great  truths  of 
the  science  of  medicine,  yea,  he  has  helped  to  bring  many 
of  them  to  light,  and  like  Pasteur  he  has  recognized  the 
grand  horizons  beyond  the  facts.  Again,  I  may  compare 
him  with  the  great  French  savant,  in  that  the  magnitude 
and  the  munificence  of  his  work  have  ever  stood  in  the 
front,  shadowing  the  man. 

And  now,  fellow  students,  if  we  who  have  been  so  fortu- 
nate as  to  be  under  the  tutelage  of  so  great  and  good  a  man 
are  to  profit  by  it,  if  we  are  to  give  expression  to  our  appre- 
ciation and  do  full  honor  to  him  who  has  labored  unceas- 
ingly for  a  third  of  a  century  that  this  college  might  be,  if 
we  are  to  drive  a  stake  here  from  which  to  measure  future 
progress,  I  feel  that  we  can  do  it  in  no  better  way  than  to 
dedicate  ourselves  anew  to  the  work  he  has  so  nobly  begun, 
to  the  end  that  the  Science  of  Comparative  Medicine  shall 
come  fully  to  share,  if  not  to  lead,  the  great  wave  of 
modern,  useful  knowledge  "which  rolls  with  the  tide  that 
circles  the  globe." 


DEAN  LAW  THROUGH  THE  EYES  OF  DEAN 
WHITE 

DAVID  S.  WHITE 
Dean  of  the  College  of  Veterinary  Medicine,  Ohio  State  University,  Columbus,  O. 

The  English  speaking  peoples  have  ever  been  fearful  of 
a  too  paternal  form  of  government.  The  avoidance  of  any- 
thing which  smacked  of  that  which  they  believed  to  con- 
stitute class  legislation  was  clung  to  so  steadfastly  by  our 
ancestry  that  it  attained  a  degree  of  ultra- conservatism 
almost  equal  to  a  religion. 

The  old  theory  of  the  state  was  that  its  chief  function 
was  to  preserve  order  and  protect  the  rights  of  man  by 
maintaining  peace.  Education,  accordingly,  found  no 
place  in  the  government  scheme.  The  business  of  the 
state  was  rather  to  suppress  the  bad  than  to  stimulate  the 
good.  The  old  theory  of  the  state  regarded  war  as  its 
principal  business.  The  new  theory  substitutes  PEACE 
for  WAR.  War  is  abnormal — pathological ;  peace  is 
normal — physiological . 

With  the  new  theory  of  the  state  came  the  recognition  of 
the  fact  that  the  physical  dangers  were  not  the  only  menaces 
to  human  progress.  With  the  new  thought  came  the 
realization  that  ' '  the  state  has  no  material  resources  com- 
parable with  its  citizens  and  no  hope  of  perpetuity  except 
in  the  intelligence  and  integrity  of  its  people." 

With  the  profit  of  this  experience  the  necessity  of  a  more 
generalized  education  became  imminent.  While  the  reasons 
for  this  necessity  may  have  varied  with  the  individual,  and 
opinions  differed,  the  framers  of  public  opinion  uttered  this 
in  common  :  ' '  We  demand  for  our  children  greater  oppor- 
tunities than  we  have  had.  We  ask  a  more  general  dis- 
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—i3— 

semination  of  the  enlightenment,  culture,  and  power  which 
education  brings." 

While  our  foreign  critics  may  croak  at  the  American 
tendency  to  look  only  at  the  material,  and  accuse  us  of  ex- 
pending a  vast  amount  of  energy  in  acquiring  it,  it  is  a  fact 
that  our  desire  for  education  and  our  contributions,  both 
private  and  state,  to  this  end,  offer  a  most  notable  and  re- 
buking exception.  As  a  result  of  the  new  thought  our 
people  established  a  public  school  system  built  upon  broad 
lines.  This  victory,  however,  was  not  attained  without 
overcoming  opposition.  The  people  saw  that  this  was 
good  and  demanded  more  of  it.  High  schools  resulted. 
At  first  these  were  viciously  assailed  by  the  honest- meaning 
and  otherwise.  Public  opinion,  however,  was  settled  upon 
another  point.  High  schools  were  also  good.  They  were 
maintained. 

It  is  therefore  not  strange  that  the  impetus  first  given  by 
Senator  Morrill,  through  the  land-grant  college  enactment, 
should  be  taken  advantage  of  by  leaders  in  modern  thought 
to  give  stimulus  to  a  still  higher  educational  movement — to 
found  a  third  degree  in  this  educational  masonry.  The  in- 
ception of  colleges  and  universities  with  government  aid, 
which  began  in  this  country  some  forty  years  ago  was  a 
natural  development  as  well  as  an  epoch  making  event  in 
history.  The  state  went  into  the  peaceful  business  of 
higher  education  and  has  maintained  it  with  increasing 
strength  until  now  the  most  vigorous  assaults  made  upon 
its  embattlements  are  repulsed  each  year  with  greater  ease 
and  with  less  inconvenience.  The  fullest  fruition  of 
Morrill's  great  work  for  the  higher  education  of  the  masses 
is  noted  in  our  more  western  State  Agricultural  Colleges. 
In  these  institutions  especially  were  the  homelier  and  less 
showy  branches  of  learning  made  prominent  in  the  cur- 
ricula, particularly  those  relating  to  Agriculture  and  the 
Mechanical  Arts. 


—14— 

Also  at  many  of  these  institutions  departments  of 
"  Veterinary  Science"  were  inaugurated.  While  these 
departments  were  intended  for  the  stockman  and  farmer, 
in  a  few  universities  courses  were  established  leading  by  a 
circuitous  and  too  often  barren  route  to  a  doctorate  degree 
in  Veterinary  Medicine.  Their  earlier  attempts  to  teach 
our  profession  were  not  altogether  glory- crowned.  Their 
poverty  made  it  incumbent  upon  the  directors  to  devote 
what  funds  they  had  to  those  technical  branches  which 
seemed  to  them  to  give  the  greatest  return,  e.  g.,  to  bring  in 
the  greatest  number  of  students  and  thus  attract  the 
greatest  amount  of  attention  on  the  part  of  too  frequently 
prejudiced  legislators.  Veterinary  courses  such  as  these 
naturally  drew  to  them  few  matriculants.  Internally  they 
were  unpopular.  However,  many  a  student  thus  obtained 
his  first  taste  of  things  veterinary,  and  if  not  too  poor, 
turned  to  complete  his  professional  studies  at  a  well  adver- 
tised and  spaciously  equipped  Veterinary  College,  which 
granted  at  the  end  of  a  brief  and  properly  attenuated  course 
of  study,  a  diploma  of  macroscopic  proportions. 

Up  to  1895,  with  the  exceptions  cited,  the  only  veter- 
inary colleges  in  America  were  maintained  as  purely  com- 
mercial enterprises.  They  were  all  pregnant  with  the  one 
ideal  to  make  the  institution  pay.  There  have  been  a  few 
exceptions,  notable  instances  of  which  were  schools  affili- 
ated with  privately  endowed  universities.  Concerning 
these,  however,  the  sorrowful  fact  remains  that  for  lack  of 
adequate  financial  support  they  in  time  tottered  and  fell.  It 
was  not  until  1895  that  modern  thought  was  firmly  enough 
crystallized  to  be  directed  to  the  importance,  economic,  sani- 
tary, and  humane,  of  the  veterinary  profession.  By  legisla- 
tive enactment  the  State  of  New  York  appropriated  $150,- 
000  for  the  erection  of  suitable  buildings  to  house  an  insti- 
tution of  veterinary  learning.  The  sum  of  $25,000  per  annum 
was  also   given  to   meet  its   current   expenses.     For  good 


— *5~ 

reasons  this  institution  was  located  upon  the  Cornell  Cam- 
pus. To-day  it  stands  unique — the  only  one  of  its  kind  in 
the  English  speaking  world.  It  seems,  therefore,  fitting  that 
this  day,  the  loth  anniversary  of  its  founding,  should  be 
commemorated,  and  that  the  man  who  is  responsible  for  it 
all  should  have  done  unto  him  the  highest  honor  which  the 
profession  at  whose  head  he  stands,  is  able  to  give. 

Behind  all  really  great  feats  of  human  accomplishment  will 
be  found  a  man — some  member  of  the  mental  aristocracy, 
the  man  of  energy,  tact,  and  brains.  The  founding  of  this  in- 
stitution has  offered  no  exception  to  the  rule.  The  concep- 
tion of  the  New  York  State  Veterinary  College  was  not  left 
to  chance.  No,  gentlemen,  it  was  the  outgrowth  of  years 
of  patient,  persistent  labor  in  behalf  of  a  cause  espoused,  a 
profession  loved  and  always  fought  for  and  advanced  with 
eloquent  tongue  and  fluent  pen — with  scientific  attainments 
of  the  highest  type  ;  with  power  to  draw  the  strong  men  of 
public  life  ;  with  intelligence  and  with  integrity.  Behind 
this  great  piece  of  human  work  I  see  a  man  who  worked  in- 
cessantly with  head,  with  hand,  with  heart  for  over  thirty 
years,  having  as  his  ideal  the  founding  of  a  real  veterinary 
school,  an  Utopia  of  Veterinary  Learning,  in  the  state  of 
his  adoption.  As  a  reward  for  this  patient  endeavor  I  see 
him  finally  live  to  realize  in  that  grand  monumental  encase- 
ment, containing  besides  the  material  apparatus  of  a  good 
equipment,  a  splendid  aggregation  of  the  best  mental  talent 
of  the  profession,  the  men  who  form  the  Faculty.  In  this 
instance  the  ' '  man  behind  the  gun  ' '  needs  not  my  intro- 
duction. His  name  and  fame  are  known  throughout  the 
land  and  across  the  sea.  As  we  gather  here  to-night  to  do 
him  honor,  and  witness  his  students  extend  to  him  a  token 
of  their  love  and  esteem  in  the  material  form  of  a  "'  Loving 
Cup, ' '  I  am  tempted  to  draw  from  his  life  a  lesson  which 
will  ever  be  to  us  an  inspiration — that  is,  to  be  ever  noble 
and  to  work. 


— 16— 

And  now,  Professor  L,aw,  I  ask  you  in  behalf  of  the  faculty 
and  students  of  the  College  of  Veterinary  Medicine  of  the 
Ohio  State  University,  a  sister  institution  of  the  Middle 
West,  to  accept  our  consecrated  wish  that  you  will  ever  be 
liberally  endowed  with  life's  greatest  blessing  of  health  and 
prosperity. 

For  the  institution  you  have  founded,  may  her  escutcheon 
ever  be  emblazoned  with  the  motto  :  Ever  upward  !  Still 
higher  !  !     Excelsior  !  !  ! 


PRESENTATION  OF  LOVING  CUP 

D.  H.  UDALL 

Associate  Professor  of  Surgery, 
College  of  Veterinary  Medicine,  Ohio  State  University,  Columbus,  O. 

It  is  not  within  us  to  express  in  spoken  language  the 
pleasure  that  we  experience  this  evening  in  thus  extending 
our  best  wishes  to  our  esteemed  and  cherished  Professor, 
Dr.  L,aw.  Those  who  have  met  here  to-night  are  but  rep- 
resentatives, in  a  sense,  of  many  of  our  colleagues  who  will, 
perhaps  silently,  but  not  less  sincerely,  extend  to  him  the 
same  compliments. 

We  wish  for  him  the  same  happiness  and  joyful  activity 
that  have  characterized  and  honored  his  past  life.  We 
thank  him  for  what  he  has  been  to  us  as  a  pioneer  in  the 
profession,  as  a  scientist,  as  a  teacher,  and  last,  but  not 
least,  as  a  friend  and  father  to  every  veterinary  student  that 
ever  crossed  our  campus. 

There  are  countless  other  reasons  why  he  has  won  the 
esteem  and  gratitude  that  find  expression  this  evening 
from  a  few  of  his  friends  and  pupils.  When  we  shall  have 
lived  long  enough  to  comprehend  the  limitations  of  the 
possibilities  of  a  single  personality  we  can  more  fully  appre- 
ciate the  value  to  our  profession  of  the  service  performed 
by  Dr.  Law.  Few  have  a  clear  conception  of  the  status  of 
our  profession  in  America  when  he  first  became  an  active 
influence.  This  is  largely  due  to  the  fact  that  it  had  not 
yet  been  introduced  as  a  profession  capable  of  supporting 
its  own  weight.  Does  he  not  deserve  our  plaudits  when, 
in  so  short  a  time,  his  rare  personality  and  tireless  activity 
have  given  us  an  institution  recognized  by  his  colleagues 
who  remained  at  home  as  superior  to  any  of  its  kind  in 
their  own  country. 
17 


— 18— 

His  work  has  experienced  no  relapses,  it  has  never  had 
an  opportunity  to  advance  by  the  force  of  its  own  momen- 
tum, and  best  of  all  the  influence  of  that  work  seems  to  be 
in  the  incipient  stage.  The  extent  of  that  influence  is  an 
indeterminate  factor.  It  has  created  opportunities  for 
those  who  would  avail  themselves  of  a  veterinary  education 
to  obtain  it  in  an  atmosphere  of  refinement  and  scientific 
research  that  leaves  within  them  ideals  worthy  of  a  digni- 
fied profession  and  stimuli  to  transform  their  ideals  to  reali- 
ties, it  has  created  a  standard  which  assists  similar  institu- 
tions in  gaining  proper  recognition  and  support,  and  it  has 
supplied  a  creative  energy  that  seems  destined  to  become  a 
constantly  increasing  force  in  the  solution  of  those  scientific 
problems  which  logically  fall  in  the  path  of  the  veterinarian. 

It  is  the  fortune  of  few  men  with  undisturbed  mental  and 
physical  vigor  to  be  able  to  look  back  at  such  satisfactory 
achievements  and  forward  to  still  more  satisfactory  proba- 
bilities. His  achievements  have  never  been  won  at  the  cost 
of  another's  success.  Personal  ambition  has  had  no  place 
in  the  scheme  of  his  ideals.  If  the  shadow  of  failure  ever 
fell  across  his  path  he  has  failed  to  recognize  it.  His  qual- 
ities have  combined  the  grip  of  a  bull  dog  with  the  faith 
and  patience  of  a  martyr,  they  have  been  one  of  our  chief 
resources  in  opening  new  paths  of  learning  in  veterinary 
science  and  they  have  won  him  a  position  of  honor  enjoyed 
by  few  in  our  profession. 

As  pupils  we  recognize  in  him  those  qualities  which  in- 
spire one  with  an  ambition  for  scientific  proficiency  and  for 
the  cultivation  of  those  elements  which  furnish  the  mate- 
rial for  character.  We  recognize  and  are  impressed  by  that 
spirit  of  personal  sympathy  and  interest  in  our  welfare  that 
forbears  our  faults  in  recognition  of  the  best  that  is  in 
us.  These  traits  have  stamped  their  influence  on  the  minds 
of  every  student  that  ever  became  his  pupil.  In  moulding 
their  professional  destiny  he  has  unconsciously,  by  the  force 


— 19— 

of  his  personal  example,  exerted  a  powerful  influence  in 
the  development  of  those  faculties  which  we  respect  and 
admire  in  our  fellow  creatures. 

That  personality  which  has  won  him  the  esteem  of  those 
with  whom  he  occasionally  came  in  contact  has  developed  in 
his  associates  a  type  of  friendship  that  has  a  very  close  rela- 
tion to  affection.  The  students  and  alumni  of  this  institu- 
tion are  brought  together  here  to-night  by  the  spirit  of 
loyalty  it  has  inspired  in  them. 

We  take  unspeakable  pleasure  in  paying  our  respects  to 
that  personality.  Its  light  can  never  depart  from  our  campus. 
May  its  bearer  live  long  in  the  enjoyment  of  those  gifts  he 
has  so  skillfully  used,  and  may  this  token  of  our  esteem 
and  gratitude  convey  to  him  the  thoughts  that  he  has  so 
many  times  expressed  to  us  in  deeds. 


REMARKS  OF  P.  A.  FISH,  TOASTMASTER 

If  words  of  mine  could  add  to  the  luster  of  the  achieve- 
ments of  our  Director,  most  cheerfully  would  they  be 
uttered  ;  but  all,  who  know  him,  know  that  ' '  deeds  make 
the  man  ' ' ,  and  that  he  is  still  the  peer  of  many  a  younger 
man,  where  work  is  concerned. 

' '  Laborare  est  orare ' ' — to  labor  is  to  pray.  Dr.  L,aw's  life 
has  been  a  continuous  prayer.  We,  who  enjoy  his  friend- 
ship, know  that  his  genius  is  not  merely  inspiration  but 
perspiration,  and  that  is  the  kind  that  endures. 

Gladstone,  because  of  his  work,  was  designated  as  the 
grand  old  man  of  the  English  parliament ;  by  the  same 
token,  Dr.  L,aw  is  the  grand  old  man  of  the  American 
Veterinary  profession. 


RKSPONSK    BY   DR.  LAW 


Extract  from   letter  of  Dr.   D.   E.    Salmon,    Chief  of  the 
Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,   Washington,  D.  C. 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  I  am  unable  to  accept  your  kind 
invitation  to  attend  your  banquet  and  to  respond  to  a  toast. 
I  have  much  pleasure,  however,  in  assuring  you  of  my  high 
appreciation  of  Dr.  Law's  work  for  the  development  of 
veterinary  instruction  at  Cornell  University,  in  aid  of 
Federal  and  State  legislation  for  the  control  of  animal 
diseases,  and  in  the  diffusion  of  modern  ideas  concerning 
animal  diseases  and  their  treatment. 
20 


— 21 — 

Dr.  Law  came  to  the  United  States  when  a  comparatively 
young  man,  and  his  principal  work  and  achievements  have 
been  in  the  United  States.  It  is  impossible  to  estimate  the 
influence  which  he  has  had  in  shaping  American  thought 
along  veterinary  channels  and  in  aiding  work  for  the  con- 
trol of  animal  diseases,  but  this  influence  has  been  tre- 
mendous and  will  be  enduring. 

I  commend  your  efforts  to  demonstrate  the  appreciation 
of  the  alumni  and  undergraduates  in  Professor  Law's  work 
and  to  put  this  appreciation  in  concrete  form,  by  the  pre- 
sentation of  a  loving  cup. 


Letter  from  Dr.  Roscoe  R.  Bell,  Editor  of  the  American 
Veterinary  Review  and  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  i?i  the 
New  York- American  Veterinary  College. 

I  am  in  receipt  of  your  very  cordial  invitation  of  the  1 8th 
inst.  to  be  present  at  your  annual  college  banquet  on 
February  15th,  and  I  assure  you  that  I  should  esteem  it  a 
great  privilege  to  be  with  you  on  that  evening  and  to  be 
permitted  to  say  a  few  words  to  your  guests,  particularly  as 
the  occasion  is  commemorative  of  the  tenth  anniversary  of 
the  founding  of  the  great  veterinary  school  at  which  you 
and  your  associates  have  the  great  good  fortune  to  seek 
your  professional  training.  Especially  should  I  love  to 
mingle  with  you  while  you  are  doing  homage  to  your  dis- 
tinguished Director,  for  I  fully  appreciate  the  splendid  work 
which  he  has  and  is  accomplishing  for  the  cause  of  higher 
education  for  the  American  veterinarian.  Professor  Law, 
already  weighted  with  laurels  which  he  has  so  deservedly 
won  in  his  long  and  active  career,  does  -not  rest  upon  them, 
but  is  just  as  hard  a  student  and  as  indefatigable  a  worker 
as  he  was  before  most  of  us  were  born,  and  in  this  respect 


— 22 

stands  almost  alone  among  those  who  were  his  colleagues  a 
generation  ago. 

I  propose  that  you  drink  with  me  to  the  health  of  Pro- 
fessor Law,  and  couple  with  it  the  hope  of  the  veterinary 
profession  of  the  American  Continent,  that  he  may  long 
live  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  his  great  work  for  the  cause  we 
all  have  so  close  to  our  hearts. 

I  need  scarcely  say  to  those  of  you  who  know  me  that 
only  my  entire  preoccupation  could  keep  me  in  Brooklyn 
on  the  15th  ;  but  I  hope  you  will  convey  to  the  banqueters, 
and  to  your  honored  guest,  my  sincere  wish  for  a  pleasant 
and  profitable  evening. 


AN  APPRECIATION  OF  PROFESSOR  LAW 

LEONARD  PEARSON 

Dean    of  the    Veterinary    Department,   University  of  Pennsylvania,  and    State 
Veterinarian,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  it  is  impossible  for  me  to 
arrange  to  be  with  you  on  the  15th  inst.,  to  add  my  testi- 
mony to  the  worth  of  our  esteemed  teacher  and  friend  and 
to  help  to  honor  this  man  to  whom  so  much  honor  is  due. 

My  personal  acquaintance  with  Dr.  Law  began  twenty- 
one  years  ago  when  I  entered  the  University  in  1884.  At 
that  time  there  were  no  conveniences  as  you  enjoy  today  ; 
Dr.  Law  worked  under  great  disadvantages,  such  as  would 
have  discouraged  most  men,  but  he  gave  us  his  best  thought 
and  efforts  and  inspired  us  with  high  ideals.  In  the 
Summer  of  1887  it  was  my  good  fortune  to  work  under  him 
in  Chicago,  where  he  had  been  sent  by  the  Government  to 
exterminate  lung  plague,  and  I  continue  to  look  back  upon 
that  time  as  one  of  the  most  profitable  of  my  experience. 


—23— 

Dr.  Law  has  been  a  pioneer,  he  has  had  to  endnre  the 
privations  and  disadvantages  of  the  pioneer  ;  happily  he  has 
been  more  fortunate  than  many  pioneers  in  that  he  may 
witness  some  of  the  results  of  his  work  and  sacrifice. 
Always  a  leader,  he  has  practiced,  he  has  delved  in  research, 
he  has  lectured,  he  has  written  and  he  has  formed  public 
opinion  and  guided  public  action  in  many  critical  periods. 
His  firm  stand  upon  the  extermination  of  lung  plague  has 
saved  the  nation  untold  millions.  He  has  organized  the 
best  Veterinary  School  in  this  country  and  has  written  the 
best  treatise  on  Veterinary  Medicine  in  the  English  language. 

When  a  distinguished  veterinarian  from  Germany  re- 
cently said  :  ' '  Dr.  Law  is  the  leading  man  in  his  profession 
in  this  country  and  most  of  the  veterinary  advances  may  be 
traced  directly  or  indirectly  to  him " ,  all  who  heard  gave 
ready  assent. 

We  who  have  listened  to  his  instruction  are  thankful  for 
the  great  privilege  and  are  proud  of  it,  but  we  are  far  from 
being  the  only  members  of  our  profession  who  owe  him  a 
debt  of  gratitude ;  his  works  will  speak  for  him  to  future 
generations  and  his  influence  will  be  felt  wherever  his 
students,  and  their  students,  go. 

I  am  glad  to  have  this  opportunity  to  express  my  thanks 
to  Dr.  Law  for  all  that  he  has  been  and  is  to  me. 


Extract  from  letter  of  J.  H.  McNeil,  Dean  of  the  Veterinary 
Department,  Iowa  State  College,  Ames,  Iowa. 

It  is  well  and  fitting  that  the  tenth  anniversary  of  the 
founding  of  the  New  York  State  Veterinary  College  should 
be  celebrated  in  such  a  signal  manner,  and  do  honor  to  Dr. 
James  Law,  a  name  familiar  to  us  all,  and  whose  whole  life 


—24— 

has  been  spent  in  active  work  for  the  advancement  of  the 
veterinarian  and  his  many  interests. 

"  Law's  Veterinary  Medicine  "  will  remain  for  years  as  a 
standard  of  excellence,  representing  all  that  could  be 
gleaned  from  foreign  literature  and  the  extensive  practice 
of  several  decades. 


Telegram  from  Dr.  A.  M.  Farrington,    Bureau  of  Animal 
Industry,   Washington,  D.  C. 

Please  extend  to  Professor  Law  my  sincere  and  heartiest 
congratulations.  May  he  live  long  and  prosper  ;  may 
your  banquet  be  an  unqualified  success. 


Extract  from  letter  of  Carl   W.  Gay,  Assistant  Professor  of 
Animal  Husbandry ,  Iowa  State  College,  Ames,  Iowa. 

I  note  with  pleasure  the  step  your  Society  is  taking  in 
celebrating  the  tenth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the 
New  York  State  Veterinary  College,  as  a  surprise  ovation 
to  Dr.  Law.  Nothing  would  please  me  more  than  to  be 
able  to  participate  in  the  celebration.  This  being  im- 
possible, I  can  hardly  forbear  offering  a  little  personal  trib- 
ute, for  it  is  a  matter  on  which  I  feel  very  deeply.  I  truly 
feel  that  no  man,  outside  of  my  own  family,  has  meant  more 
to  me  than  has  Dr.  Law,  and  the  high  esteem,  yes,  almost 
reverence,  shown  him  by  everyone  who  has  been  associated 
with  him  is  the  strongest  evidence  of  his  sterling  character, 
as  well  as  the  high  professional  ability  of  the  man. 

The  New  York  State  Veterinary  College  stands  as  a 
splendid  monument  to  his  efforts,  and  the  real  significance 


—25— 

of  this  institution,  as  concerned  with  the  veterinary  profes- 
sion, is  made  more  striking  by  contact  with  veterinarians 
the  country  over.  There  have  been  times  when  personal 
ambition  and  politics  have  threatened  those  associations 
which  are  supposed  to  stand  for  all  that  is  best  in  our  pro- 
fession. It  was  at  such  times  that  Dr.  L,aw  showed  his 
power  in  a  manner  not  seen  in  the  classroom.  In  the  face 
of  almost  unanimous  opposition,  but  by  a  force  irresistible, 
because  prompted  by  a  keen  sense  of  justice  and  right,  he 
would  turn  the  trend  of  affairs,  bringing  order  out  of  chaos, 
victory  from  defeat.  It  is  to  the  character  and  personality 
of  the  man,  more  even  than  to  his  great  professional  ability, 
that  we,  as  graduates,  owe  most.  I  believe  that  Dr.  L,aw 
enjoys  a  position  unique  in  itself,  and  not  attained  by  any 
other  member  of  the  veterinary  profession  in  this  country. 


